Re: OS X library path issues for libpq (ver 8.3)

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Benjamin Reed <rangerrick(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 3:46 AM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
>
>> I'll look at a solution for the installer - it'll probably have to be
>> the symlink unless anyone else has a better idea...
>
> Another option would be to create them as actual frameworks; instead
> of libpq you'd have /Library/Frameworks/pq.framework (and all the
> files/directories as required) and then people could compile with
> "-framework pq" and the OSX linker would do the write thing without
> having to dirty a system library path (/usr/lib) with symlinks.

Agreed, though I think that's something that should be handled by the
PostgreSQL build system. Plus, I doubt it would be directly supported
by many apps for some time - pgAdmin certainly wouldn't like it, nor
would Slony.

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Dave Page
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